Comedy: June 2013 Archives

Sunday June 16, 2013

Last weekend, we heard about single male dating angst as portrayed in two shows in the Montreal Fringe Festival. Today, we get the other side of the equation.

Single Black Female is a two-woman show by Nu Spyce Productions. Letitia Brookes and Gara Nlandu play two smart, middle class single women in their 30s searching for love and respect. Along the way, they morph into meddling aunts and ex-lovers as they air their views on internet dating, marriage, careers, kids, and racial biases.

Sunday June 16, 2013

Turbans, pasta, corruption. . . .there's a lot to talk about in Quebec in recent months. It's just fuel for fire for Bowser and Blue.

They've spent 35 years singing about Quebec's controversies and peculiarities - and they can't very well slow down now. With songs like "It ain't easy being white", "Les Deux Guidounes" and "We Are Townshippers", they make taboos into comic songs.

Sunday June 9, 2013

The biggest category at the Fringe is English-language comedy, and this morning Sonali Karnick speaks with the creators of two of those one-man shows.

Jeff Gandell is a Montreal storyteller and teacher.His show "The Balding" tells the tale of how he started losing his hair in his early twenties - and how he tries to stop the process by losing his virginity.